Live Search arrives on Facebook

Beginning this afternoon, Facebook users who type in a query in the search box in the upper right hand corner of the social networking site are greeted with a choice: Search Facebook or Search the Web, using Microsoft’s Live Search.

In a blog post today, Live Search’s Angus Norton says, “This is a great first step in our partnership. As we evaluate user feedback and results we’ll explore additional ways to integrate Live Search more deeply into the Facebook experience. We’ll have more to share on this partnership in the weeks to come, so stay tuned.”

He invites the public to comment on Live Search’s Facebook page. I should mention that the page has 140 fans. By contrast, the Google search page has 4,382 fans.

This disparity is greater than the ratio between Internet searches done on Google versus searches done on Microsoft sites, which is closer to 7 to 1.